Supreme Magus novel Chapter 854

Chapter 854 Xedros Part 2

The memory of Gadorf the Wyvern struck Lith, making him reconsider. Xedros sounded more troublesome by the second, but Lith didn’t have much choice left. The Wyvern was an opponent he could face or who had least had to respect his new master.

A Dragon, instead, would likely treat the both of them like bugs.

A sudden childish noise awoke Lith from his brooding, raising even more questions about the Hydra being so chipper.

"What was that?"

"Sorry, the little one is a real rascal and managed to snatch my amulet." She showed him an infant that couldn’t be more than a few months old.

"I helped Selia during her delivery and it made wonders to break the ice. Sometimes I babysit her children to allow her to catch some sleep or go on a date with Ryman. Gods, I had almost forgotten how wonderful hatchlings are. It makes me wish to have a few of my own again."

’Thank heavens, this explains everything. For a moment I was afraid that Faluel was flirting with me, but she’s just swayed by her maternal instincts.’ Lith inwardly sighed in relief.

"I heard you already have a companion. With your cracked lifeforce you’ve not long left to live. You should hurry, you know. You’re not getting any younger." Faluel repeating Elina’s mantra but with much less tact made him almost regret the decision of becoming her apprentice.

Almost.

Faluel then offered Lith to Warp him directly to his destination, but he preferred to study the surroundings instead.

’If this Xedros is even half as bad as she described him, then it’s better to have an escape route and a few contingency plans ready.’ Lith thought.

The First Wyvern lived on the top of the Golden Crown mountain, near the south border of the Kellar region. It was a peak so high that it would be always surrounded by clouds that, whenever there was a storm, thunders would paint its glaciers a golden color, giving the mountain its name.

Xedros’s cave was hidden by such a thick cloud layer that Lith doubted it could be natural.

’Are you sure you don’t want me to come?’ Solus asked when Lith left her in the middle of the most powerful array at their disposal.

’Positive. I don’t plan on letting Xedros use Invigoration on me, but he might still have means of detection able to spot you. Menadion’s legacy would give anyone plenty of reason to defy Faluel and I don’t want to take risks.’

Solus’s mana sense had perceived a lot of arrays covering the mountain. Some of them were invisible even to their mystic senses and Lith found them only because his paranoia forced him to use Invigoration before landing.

Xedros seemed the kind of creature that would not leave anything to chance and Lith followed the Wyvern’s lead, placing his own arrays in the blind spots of the enemy formation.